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Just like everyone said, I have green hair algae now that my brown algae has disapeared. I never thought to ask what to do about it. Well here I am now with a thin 1/2" layer of it on just one piece of rock. I turned my lights off and plan on leaving them off for the next few days, been using...

I've had this piece of Christmas tree rock in quarantine for a couple of weeks and it is full of life, well I had no idea just how much. The rock is only about as big as my fist but it has paired feather duster worms, about a dozen bristle worms, and now this. I woke up for work this morning and...

At least it was cool to me. Being a noobie, first sightings like this I guess would make it more exciting. Since my tank is finaly clearing I can see things like this now. Anyhow, I saw one of my small blue legged hermits crabs was parked next to a nice shiney, bright white, slighly larger...

Just what the title says, I've had it for about 5 days now and it hasnt gotten any better. I did a search on this sight about cloudy water and came up with a few ideas of what the problem could be and inevitably figured out that I had something dead behind my base rock. So I did a small water...

I bought a piece of "christmas tree" rock that has the little "paired" feather dusters all over it, but I have noticed 2 other critters that I am not sure what they are. I've had the rock in quarantine for about 5 days now and want to introduce it to my tank but cant until I figure out what...

I noticed a small animal that came out of a new piece of LR today and have no idea what it is, I dont know if it is a good thing or a bad thing. I couldnt get a picture of it because it was too small so I will try to describe it. I remended me of a caterpillar about 3/16" long, purple, and had...

3 1/2 weeks into our cycle and I have watched this brown algae cover the live rock 3 times now. It seems to like the whiter rock more, or maybe it just shows up better on a lighter rock I dont know. The snails clean up a lot of it but they cant keep up. Last night I specificaly remember looking...

I am getting ready to do my first partial water change this weekend and I was wondering if I should clean the algae off of the back glass. Accually, I beleive it is residual diatomes still from the beginning of the cycle. The snails I have are cleaning up like mad and I know they will eventually...

First off I wanna say thanks to all who replied to my original thread about my first SW tank. It was my first post on this forum and I was thoughtfully welcomed. I had a question about the algae (brown) that covered the tank and someone told me it was diatomes and it would subside and it did...

Hi everyone, I am new to the saltwater world and new to this forum. I am in my 3rd week of cycling my new 55g tank and algae seemed to grow over night once I got the right lighting. I was wondering if this is normal that it looks kinda brown to me, and from what I've read, brown is bad...